Prerequisites

Step 1: Choose the region best for you and your customers.

There are some 16 geographic regions around the world to choose from and at the time of writing new ones planned in Bahrain, China, France, Hong Kong and Sweden.

You’re going to need to choose whats nearest. For example, I live in Switzerland. I tested both Ireland and Frankfurt in Germany until I decided what was better. I think the price differences minimal but I’m only running a couple of machines and see a 10 dollar difference per year.

Step 2: Decide on the CIDR network IP range for the network.

You can think of this step like you are deciding on phone numbers. It’s not possible for two people to have the same telephone number and phone each other. If you ever get into e-commerce, then most likely you’ll need or want VPN access to your systems on Amazon.